Check-book.



Patented Nov. Il, |902.

No. 7l3,538.

F. V'ANDEVEN.

CHECK BOOK.

(Application led June 23, 1902.)

(No Model.)

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FRANK VANDEVEN, OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

CHECK-BOOK.

SPECIFICATON forming part of Letters .Patent No. 713,538, dated Novemberl 1, 1902.

Application filed .Tune 23,1902.

Be it known that LFRANK VANDEvEN,a citizen of the United States,residing at Grand Rapids, in the county of Kent and State of Michigan,haveiuvented new and useful Improvements in Check-Books, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements incheck-books.

The invention consists in combining with the front cover of a check-booka blotter secured to the cover in such manner that the inner end of theblotter will cover the stubs and by means of a spring retain thembetween the inner end of the said blotter and the cover of the book.

The object of the invention is to provide a check-book with a blotterthat is attached to the cover in such a manner that every check can befreely blotted with its stub at the same time and also to furnish areceptacle for the stubs after the checks have been detached therefrom,substantially as hereinafter described. This object I accomplish bymeans of the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, inwhich- Figure 1 shows a plan view of an open book provided with myimproved blotter attachment, the dotted lines showing the position ofthe spring which holds the free end of the blotter in place. Fig. 2shows a sectional view on line X X of Fig. 1.

Similarletters refer to similar parts throughout both views.

A A show the covers of the book.

B and B show the blotter.

C shows my preferred form of spring. That part of the blotter indicatedby B is secured to the cover A, preferably from the outer end of thecover, by the spring attachment D.

D shows my preferred form of attaching the spring and the cover, being astaple passing over and around the spring and through the cover andclenched in any suitable manner. Instead of using the spring D any othersuitable means may be employed for securing the springin place. If thepart B of the blotter is secured to the cover by means of glue, thestaple D may be disposed of.

Serial No. 112,870. (No model.)

The free end of the spring extends from the point D to the inner end ofthe blotter. The spring on the under side of that portion of the blottermarked B may be covered by paper or any other suitable material or, ifpreferred, need not be covered at all.

E represents the stubs of the checks from which the checks have beendetached, the said stubs being turned back and held in a pocket or spacebetween the cover A and the part B' of the blotter, the spring acting toretain these stubs in position. The spring attached as above described,together with the free end of the blotter, forms a spring-hinge, as itwere, and enables the useizof the checkbook after the check and stubhave been blotted by closing the book and the check has been removed toturn the stub of the check back into position beneath the blotter. Fshows an undetached check. In the drawings I have shown a smallcheck-book in which but one spring C is used. In case of largecheck-books a plurality of springs may be used, if desired. After acheck has been removed the stub is turned back beneath said part B', asabove described, and then the blotter is in position to blot the nextstub and check by merely closing the book. This operation is repeatedwith each check that is drawn and removed. If preferred, the blotter maybe bent around the front end of the spring and back beneath the same,forming a covering for the spring. Any suitable form of spring may beused and any ordinary blotter.

This invention is peculiarly adapted for use in connection with theordinary checkbook, in which the book is provided with stubs for theentry of a certain date and amount of the check, and therefore used tokeep memoranda of the checks which have been drawn.

The book constructed as above described has always its blotter ready foruse, and if used as above described the stubs are always out of the waywhenever a new check is drawn.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim to have invented, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

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A bank cheek-book provided with checks In testimony whereof I havehereunto set and stubs combined with a blotter that is semy hand inpresence of Lwo subscribing Witourely attached to the cover of the saidbook messes.

and provided with a free end and a spring FRANK VANDEVEN. 5 adapted toclamp the check-stubs between Vitnesses:

the free end of the blotter and the @over of l ARTHUR C. DENISON,

the book, substantially as described. EDWARD TAGGART.

